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[edit] REdirect a Company Name to a new domain

Since 1988, Motown Productions(us) is owned and operated under the DBA as West Grand Media LLC. Could you please dedirect it to www.westgrandmedia.com

it is currently being directed to Depasse Entertainment

thank you,

Michael Lovesmith President/ COO West Grand Media LLC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.95.169.26 (talk) 00:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Are you sure you are where you want to be? We are not a domain name registrar or a webmaster, we can't redirect your URL for you. A ecis^Brievenbus 00:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Motown Productions is currently a redirect to de Passe Entertainment. Currently, our information shows that Motown Productions is owned by de Passe. If Mr. Lovesmith can provide a citable source showing otherwise, we can change the articles. Otherwise, we'll stick with how it currently lists. Regardless, we are not going to redirect one of our articles to a commercial website. -- Kesh (talk) 01:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Our software doesn't even enable us to redirect a name to an external site, and we don't have an article about West Grand Media. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wildcard searching of my userspace

This is embarrassing, as I once did know how to do this. I have a number of pages in my userspace, some in the form User:Hcberkowitz/Sandbox-* and some just under User:Hcberkowitz/*

You'll notice, of course, that it's the low order part of the name that I want to find, and, for those guilty of committing regular expressions, * would normally be the wildcard character. Unless there's some escape sequence I also have forgotten, however, I have forgotten how to do that sort of wildcard search to list all the pages in my userspace, so I can clean out old pages and make the naming of others consistent.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 02:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Special:Prefixindex is what you're looking for. Useful for all pages, and userspace, too. :D Cheers! Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 02:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and just put your full username as the prefix, without the User: part, and select User talk in the menu thing. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 02:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How can I add more information to the Nutritionalvalue template

While updating the grape article and adding the Nutritionalvalue template, I had to refer to the template's page to learn how to enter 'manganese'. The only option I saw was to enter it as an optional free fromat variable, but the template still would not take that name and value. Is there a specific way to do this and add other nutrients do this template? Thanks,AlexGWU (talk) 03:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You'd need to fiddle around with the template, but don't do this if you're unacquainted with template stuff. My suggestion is to ask the template creator User:Hankwang. bibliomaniac 15 Midway upon life's journey... 04:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The documentation is at Template:Nutritionalvalue. "| opt1n=Manganese 0.66 mg| opt1v=33%" works for me (but 0.66 mg becomes bold). Suggestions to the template can be made at Template talk:Nutritionalvalue. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses. Thanks for your help PrimeHunter. I tried it per your example and it worked too.AlexGWU (talk) 00:01, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect goes back to an older version

When I look up the page "p-adic" it gets redirected to "p-adic number" but it gives the page from 3 edits ago. I've cleared my cache and checked with different browsers but had the same problem. When I look at the history it gives the current history. The differences are only at the very end of the section "Constructions", subsection "Algebraic Approach."

--Jallotta (talk) 05:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, now the problem is fixed. If it was just on my end, sorry. Otherwise thanks whoever fixed it. --Jallotta (talk) 06:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] netblock for download of archive

I am unable to download the Wikipedia archive in XML format from some of my machines:

http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2

The problem extends from wget (with user agent specified) through to Firefox clients, demonstrating that it is the IP set that appears to be blocked. Behavior is just hanging of all clients. I am able to download through a consumer pacbell account, however. There are no spam relay or other flags on my machines according to dnsgoodies.com.

How do I determine why you are blocking me?

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.111.165 (talk) 06:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Have you tried the Computing section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. Vivio Testarossa^{Talk Who} 08:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] how to delete entry from page history

How do we permanently delete sensitive information? I put someone's name in an edit summary at 4am that I shouldn't have, and he'd like me to remove it. Thanks, — kwami (talk) 08:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You need an admin or oversighter to delete a revision from a page, depending on the sensitivity of the the material. --PeaceNT (talk) 08:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

To be more specific, if you feel said info meets any WP:OVERSIGHT's criteria, please email the diff link to the address listed at Wikipedia:Requests for oversight. I hope this helps. :)--PeaceNT (talk) 08:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! — kwami (talk) 00:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Visually Impaired Access to Maths Expressions on Wikipedia

Hi. I'm visually impaired and use the JAWS V9 screenreader in conjunction with IE7 to read Wikipedia. I want to render mathematical expressions in the most accessible way, and would welcome advice about the most appropriate preferences to set.

Assuming that MathML was the way to go, I downloaded and installed the MathPlayer IE plug-in from Design Science at www.dessci.com, and chose the matching option from Wikipedia's maths preferences, but this didn't work with the first article I tried (Regular Polygon). When will MathML be fully supported by Wikipedia?

Am I better sticking with the "leave it as TeX" option for now? What does the "recommended for modern browsers" option actually do?

Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.

John D Burling (talk) 09:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Maybe Help:Preferences#Rendering math, Help:Displaying a formula, mw:Extension:Blahtex are of help. I don't know what "recommended for modern browsers" does. Pure speculation: Maybe it's not fixed but changes what it does when "modern browsers" change what they do. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

To my knowledge, the Mediawiki MathML is not in particularly good shape, and is not planned to be worked on any time soon. I suspect the "Recommended for modern browsers" option is actually the "HTML if very simple or else PNG" option, but with the possibility that as browsers improve, so does the preferred option. Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 22:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Display text as entered

I'm writing the text for a page to explain how to do a domain specific site search. I want to enter a url as part of the text, ie site:url of site

I want this to show as text but it is converting the url to a link. I can't find anything in the help which tells me how I can prevent it converting to a link. Can anyone help please? Jools —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.217.166.133 (talk) 09:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

To show a URL without link use e.g. h<nowiki/>ttp://www.example.org giving http://www.example.org.--Patrick (talk) 09:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much Patrick - much appreciated. Jools

[edit] stub files

Hi,

I downloaded the the stub files from data dump archives. It contains all the revisons. Am wondering if some one could explain the ifo about namespaces comes at the begining as follows:

 <namespace key="-2">Media</namespace> 
 <namespace key="-1">Special</namespace> 
 <namespace key="0" /> 
 <namespace key="1">Talk</namespace> 
 <namespace key="2">User</namespace> 
 <namespace key="3">User talk</namespace> 
 ......
 </siteinfo>

- <page>

 <title>AmericanSamoa</title> 
 <id>6</id>

- <revision>

 <id>233188</id> 
 <timestamp>2001-01-19T01:12:51Z</timestamp>

- <contributor>

 <ip>office.bomis.com</ip> 
 </contributor>
 <comment>*</comment> 
 <text id="233188" /> 
 </revision>

..............

Thanks --Naz (talk) 11:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

What do you want to know about it? The namespaces are the various places a page can be located - this page is in the Wikipedia namespace, the Main Page is in the unlabelled "main" namespace, actual image files are in the Media namespace and their description pages are in the Image namespace, and all of them have a corresponding talk namespace. Each of these then has a corresponding numeric id, as defined by that list at the start. More on the namespaces is at Help:Namespace. Was there something more you wanted to know (I don't know anything about the dumps, but maybe someone else can help)? Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 22:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] how to traslate from english to other languagess

≈ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.99.64.38 (talk) 12:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

If you mean Wikipedia articles then see Wikipedia:Translation. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Text size

User_talk:Alison#Text_Size works for Alison's correspondent but I think there must be an account preference for the correspondent which would more easily be changed so everybody see things the same. - Kittybrewster ☎ 12:33, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia provides some options to let the user customize his or her view of the site appearance. See: WP:MONOBOOK to get started. It may be possible for a user to override all sorts of things such as font settings, if that user wants to learn enough CSS. --Teratornis (talk) 21:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] mazo dela roache jalna mini series,

i am a devoted reader of the whiteoak books and have just aquired the 1935 film "jalna" i am not anxious to buy the 1972 or 1994 mini series of jalna. i do so wish you could help thank you trish <email removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.19.144.28 (talk) 12:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but this is not a book purchasing site. -- Kesh (talk) 12:59, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] John George Gough article

Dear Wikipedia

There are two Wikipedia suggestions for improving this article, but I believe I've fixed it in line with both. How do I make the suggestion boxes disappear?

Regards

Higvin (talk) 12:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC).

Simply remove the templates for the boxes. In this case, there's only one on the article, which is {{wikify|date=March 2008}. -- Kesh (talk) 13:01, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Carex eburnea

Francis Boott described Carex eburnea in 1839 ^[1]. This Carex sedge flowers in "late spring to mid-summer" ^[2]. It occurs "in conifer or mixed forests, occasionally fens, stable dunes and alvar on neutral or calcareous substrates and ranger from most of Canada and Alaska south (in the United States) to Nebraska, Arkansas, Alabama, and South Carolina as well as occurring in central Mexico ^[3]. This obscure species often dominates the herbaceous layer in small patches of specialized habitat (see photo) or occurs as individual clones in moist rock outcrops of limestone or sandstone in Arkansas.

C:\Documents and Settings\Phil Hyatt\My Documents\My Pictures\Carex eburnea 0001.jpg

Philip E. Hyatt holding a Carex eburnea plant in Baxter County, Arkansas on a cedar glade with a ground cover of this species dominating the herbarious layer.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sedgehead (talk • contribs) 2008-03-18T13:50:40

How can we help? Bovlb (talk) 14:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You'll need to upload the image before you can use it on Wikipedia, just so you know (WP:Upload) flaming lawyer^c 17:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Making edits show up

I added some elaboration to the end of the "philosophical system" section of the page on Friedrich Schleiermacher. While my edits show up on when I load the page on my computer, they do not appear when I load the page on other computers. However, when I press "edit page" on other computers the edits are present in the mark-up (in other words, the edits are there, just don't appear when you load up the page). How do I make my page edits actually show up when someone else is looking at the page? Fclingerman (talk) 14:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a cache issue. Try reloading the page. Bovlb (talk) 14:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

And please bypass the cache of any computer on which you are viewing the page. Meanwhile, I will bypass the Wikipedia server's cache for the page itself.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] world war 1 Frankfoss (talk) 16:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I am in college and am trying to gather information for an essay that I have to complete before this week ends. I have searched your site but can't find what I am looking for. I need to know if Britain and France greedily divided up the Turkish empire.

Any assistance on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Franklin Foster

Try Ottoman Empire, WW1 and WP:Reference desk. George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 16:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How Do I delete a Page I have made for myself?

I made a Page for Austin Mallar (me) and i want to delete it, I cant figuire out how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guitarplayeraustin (talk • contribs) 16:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Place the template {{db-bio}} on there. That'll put it up for CSD. Or use Twinkle, which makes it a bunch easier. flaming lawyer^c 17:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Already deleted by an admin. --PeaceNT (talk) 17:04, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Change in editing mechanism?

I used to be able to edit pages when logged in as codairem, and have used this privilege occasionally without ever causing offence. But today, reading the article Resonance_Raman_spectroscopy and wishing to edit it to improve a misleading sentence, I got a different behavior when I clicked on the "edit this page" link. Instead of opening the edit page, the browser downloads the file index.php. What should I do? Silvio Levy, <email removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Codairem (talk • contribs) 17:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Please go to your preferences settings, click on the "Editing" tab, and make sure that "Use external editor by default" is unchecked. I think that should clear it up.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Fuhghettaboutit - thanks for your help. Tried to say this via "talk" but it wasn't clear how to leave a message there. Guess I have a lot to learn. --codairem

You can start a new section on a talk page by clicking the '+' tab at the top. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] sig wrong- know nothing about code

I tried to change the words in my sig- don't think I changed actual code. But as you can see, it's gone wrong lol:) All I want it to do is say "special, random, " for the userpage word and "merkinsmum" for the talk page word- all in pink and bold. This is an interim phase- after that I'm going to change the font so it's easier to read. Please could someone give me the code for what I'm trying to do at the moment. Sorry if I've posted to the wrong place.:) [[User:Merkinsmum|special, random, ]][[User talk:Merkinsmum|Merkinsmum]] (talk) 18:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not the best person to answer this, because I have not customized my signature and I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to do that, but if for some reasons I did want to, I would carefully study the instructions in: WP:SIG first. That's all I've got, sorry. Maybe someone who actually knows the answer will respond. Otherwise, you'll just have to read that friendly manual page carefully and keep trying. --Teratornis (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm just taking a wild guess here, but have you tried moving your HTML tags to the outside of your double-square-bracketed expressions? Like this, for the first half of your signature:

[[User:Merkinsmum|special, random, ]]

It looks like you have a problem with your nesting of tags and wikitext delimiters. --Teratornis (talk) 21:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The code your sig produces seems okay; copying and pasting produces:

special, random, Merkinsmum

Is this

[[User:Merkinsmum|special, random, ]][[User talk:Merkinsmum|Merkinsmum]]

the exact text that's in My Preferences > Signature? Is raw signature ticked?--Kateshort forbob 21:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

It may be that HTML Tidy (which Wikipedia runs) is silently fixing the tag nesting problem when you display that code on a page. Maybe HTML Tidy does not fix tag nesting errors in a signature. --Teratornis (talk) 21:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Kateshortforbob was right.:) I had misunderstood it and not ticked the box.:) Thanks everyone. This is just an interim version, which I'm going to make more readable.:) special, random, Merkinsmum 00:17, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, consider having a concise, easy to read signature. Most of us are on the monobook skin, and light pink on top of white is difficult to read. Mac Davis (talk) 08:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Odd history

Not a big deal but a quirk in a history. Please take a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Muir_High_School_%28Pasadena%2C_California%29&action=history

This history (on my system) shows my 3 recent edits, most recent at 18:26.

It does not show the 4th edit I made just after. But if I go to the most recent diff in the history, I can then go to the more recent diff (the 4th edit).

??? Wanderer57 (talk) 18:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

It looks ok on my end. I see all 4 changes. Probably a cache issue with your browser. Try purging the page. See WP:CACHE. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 18:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of public universities in North Carolina

I was hoping to get everyones opinion on the fairuse of a couple of photos. Most are public domain, but a few arent. Specifically: UNC_system_seal.gif (UNC system Seal), Www.uncfsu.jpg (Fayetteville State seal), NCCU_seal.gif (NC Central seal), UNCAcoin.gif (UNC-A seal), Uncwlogo.gif (UNC-W seal), WCU_Seal.gif (Western Carolina seal), and Athletic_ram_color_full.jpg (Winston-Salem State picture). All are located in this article: List of public universities in North Carolina If this does not make sense, please write on my talkpage. Thanks, PG Pirate 18:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article reviewing

Is there any place where one's supposed to mooch a review for an article they're working on, if we hope to submit it for GA or FA at somepoint? Or are you stuck just submitting it and hoping you can respond to criticism as fast as it's made? Mr Lemon (talk) 18:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Most project pages have a system for reviewing pages within the project. For instance Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review. What page do you want to have reviewed? Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 19:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Uh, it's Augustus Jones, which is actually a B-class biography, so your example is probably exactly the place I'm looking for. Thanks. Mr Lemon (talk) 19:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Great... good luck. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 19:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Linking to images

Is there a policy or guidance on whether it's OK to wikilink to an image? An editor has uploaded images (which is a whole fair use question i'll leave to the Bot for now) but rather than placing the images on the page, has wikilinked to them instead. See List of Omnitrix aliens for the context. Thanks Ged UK (talk) 19:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Without regard to the problematic licensing on those particular images, wikilinking to any valid and appropriate image is encouraged. Take a look at the Wikipedia:Image use policy for more info. There's some guidance there under "Deleting images" about what you can do about the fair-use/licensing problem other than leaving it to a 'Bot – Zedla (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks for that. I did browse through that policy, but my eyes tend to glaze over when it comes to fair use, and I couldn't remember seeing image linking in that way before. Thanks again. Ged UK (talk) 20:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Glaze over? Bite your tongue. Try reading the Russian constitution in translation (Greek and Urdu are both recommended), or the Los Angeles telephone directory, a couple of times:

Then return to the fair use policies. They will read like brilliant prose. In some sections, they will seem sublime poetry. In one or two passages, downright majestic. Wanderer57 (talk) 00:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Zedla, I don't see anything in Wikipedia:Image use policy about wikilinking to image pages from mainspace articles without displaying the image. I haven't seen it discussed elsewhere and it seems inappropriate to me. I guess there are many data users where such cross namespace wikilinks will not work. The edit in question is [1]. Did you know the question was about this type of linking? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Granted it might be common to expose the link like this: Image:Ben10Alienforce Humongousaur.jpg, I'm not sure there's been a discussion on this either. Zedla (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

So, there isn't a consensus on this then? Where would I need to go to start a discussion? Ged UK (talk) 21:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure whether this is covered by existing pages or where to best discuss it. If images are linked at all from articles then I think it should be with Media: which only links to the image and not the image description page which can contain all sorts of unencyclopedic things. For example, link to Media:Ben10Alienforce Humongousaur.jpg instead of Image:Ben10Alienforce Humongousaur.jpg. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Also see Wikipedia:Image_markup#Linking to the image description page which is an example of the above. I haven't found anything indicating you must not wikilink as described although it's probably not a stylistic preference. I'd take a look at the Wikipedia:Village Pump if you want to start a discussion (pick your relevant section). – Zedla (talk) 06:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How do i create a new page?

I need help creating an entirely new Wikipedia page. How do i do this?--Jeffduke404 (talk) 20:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Your first article. Stwalkerster [ talk ] 20:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. --The Helpful One ^(Review) 20:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-protection of a new article

How do I go about getting a new article I just wrote semi-protected. There is much vandalism occuring on Cone sisters and I need to get it stopped. Thanks!!!--Doug ^talk 20:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

This would be place to request it: WP:RFPP. Wisdom89 _{(_T / ^C)} 20:58, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I have semi-protected for 31 hours, but note that some of the IP contributions have been constructive. Bovlb (talk) 21:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I asked about this problem HERE. Wanderer57 (talk) 21:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WAZZ/WFLB

Never mind how I got to this point.

I was working on the WMXF article and the online source I was using had some information about another WMXF. I was about to edit the article on that station when I got off track. I'm tired and ready to go home and have nothing to do with computers until tomorrow and nothing to do with WAZZ or WFLB until later this week or next week.

But when it finally came time for me to put the WMXF information in the WFLB article, I found out there was no WFLB article. There was an article about the station which is now WAZZ. I could copy and paste from WFLB but that would wreck the history.

I remember dealing with this before. Someone did a merge of two separate articles on WEGX, one of which I contributed to.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what the question is here. WP:MOVE, WP:MERGE, and/or WP:DISAMBIG might be relevant to this situation. --Teratornis (talk) 21:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that I spent most of the afternoon on several articles where I could post some of the information related to the old WMXF. But when it came time to post on the article about the actual WMXF, it was about the same radio station for which I had made most of the contributions. There are two articles about WFLB. One should be about the station that is now WFLB, but what is there should be moved to the other article, WAZZ, the one I contributed to yesterday. A lot. It shouldn't be copy and paste because there is the history to consider.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 16:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I looked at WP:MERGE which describes some similar cases, but not exactly what you are facing. You might look at WP:SPLICE, which lists a bunch of cases where people are de-tangling pages that have been moved or copied and pasted on top of each other. I'm not really sure what you need to do; maybe someone on the WP:SPLICE page can help. --Teratornis (talk) 20:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The merge has been completed and I wrote a separate article for WFLB, but my objecitve was not achieved. Perhaps there needs to be some way to indicate who contributed what to the text that was moved to the WAZZ article; this can be found in the WFLB history.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 14:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] John Deere article

I'm sorry that I haven't been able to offer this correction more easily; but...

In my screen, the Wikipedia article about John Deere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deere) refers in the second paragraph to his mother as "PoopyPants Fartbag".

When I went in to make an editorial correction, the editorial page simply listed the same woman as "his mother". "PoopyPants Fartbag" was gone.

So:

I'm alerting you to this pubescent irritation, and asking for instructions on how to correct his on my own in future:

thx

(email removed) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.94.44.70 (talk) 21:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

This was vandalism and has been reverted. You are welcome to revert vandalism on your own. It's usually easier than reporting it. See Help:Reverting. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

(e/c) Hi! Thank you for trying to revert this vandalism. For future reference, please see Help:Reverting for some instructions on this. What apparently happened here, though, was that when you first arrived at the article the vandalism was present. By the time you attempted to edit it, another user had already reverted the vandalism. Please see the article's history which shows the reversion. If you still saw the vandalism when you went back to the article, that is probably because your computer already had the previous version in its cache memory, so you weren't seeing the article as it was then, but the older version as your computer remembered it. You can force your computer to empty is cache memory. On many computers you can just click cntrl+F5 but please see WP:BYPASS. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Energy drink

Resolved.

This page is constantly vandalized. Just about every day and it's usually by ISP numbers, not users. Is there a way to make it so that only registered users can edit it? Superstarwarsfan (talk) 23:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You can request page protection at WP:RPP, so that only users who have been registered for more than 3 or 4 days can edit. ~ Lego K^ontribs T^alkM 23:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I made a request that the page would be simi protected for a indefinite time period. You can also refer to Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection for future references.

Thanks Staffwaterboy ^Talk^♂ 01:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)